Rabbit, Run Overview

Rabbit, Run is a novel written by John Updike. In the novel, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom is a young man in his twenties who feels trapped in his marriage. He married young because his girlfriend was pregnant. Now more than two years into the marriage, his wife is once again pregnant. Harry - not happy in his marriage or his job - abandons both, hence the title Rabbit, Run. It is the story of how one man’s struggle with life and responsibilities can affect everyone in his life.

John Updike Biographies (8)

Biography EssayA reader would be hard pressed to name a contemporary author other than John Updike who is more in tune with the way most Americans live. Unconcerned with apocalypse in his fiction, und...
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Author John Updike (born 1932) mirrored his America in poems, short stories, essays, and novels, especially the four-volume "Rabbit" series.John Updike was born on March 18, 1932, in Shillington, Penn...
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"A reader would be hard pressed to name a contemporary author other than John Updike whose work is more in tune with the way most Americans live," wrote Donald J. Greiner in Dictionary of Literary Bio...
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During his college years John Updike was a graphic artist, especially adept as a cartoonist and draftsman, and this very literal sense of style has been the most distinguishing factor in his novels an...
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John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. Following graduation (summa cum laude) in 1954 from Harvard University, where he was an English major and editor of the Harvard Lampoon, he studied f...
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[This entry was updated by Donald J. Greiner (University of South Carolina) from his entry in DLB 143: American Novelists Since World War II, Third Series, pp. 250-276.]A reader would be hard pressed ...
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While his stature as a short-story writer may be perpetually overshadowed by the novelistic achievements of the Rabbit tetralogy--Rabbit, Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981), and Ra...
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A reader would be hard pressed to name a contemporary author other than John Updike whose work is more in tune with the way most Americans live. Unconcerned with apocalypse in his fiction, undeterred ...
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Essays & Analysis (2)

Introduction
American novelist, short story writer, poet, critic, and essayist.
Updike is an acute observer of the human condition and an extraordinary stylist. His major subject is the domestic life ...
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Introduction
American novelist, short story writer, poet, critic, and essayist.
Updike is an acute observer of the human condition and an extraordinary stylist. His major subject is the domestic life ...
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